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The complainant reported the matter to the Hawks members from Durban Serious Corruption Investigation and an undercover operation was conducted on 03 March 2022. He was arrested at his place of employment and charged for corruption.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in court several times until he was convicted and sentenced. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment of which half of the sentence will be served under correctional supervision.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Police Service<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KWAZULU-NATAL \u2013 On Tuesday 28 June 2022, the Greytown Regional Court convicted and sentenced Dumisani Mchunu who was a traffic officer at Umvoti Municipality.Mchunu demanded R10 000-00 gratification after he claimed that the license disc of the complai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Umvoti municipality traffic official sentenced for corruption - South Africa Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/umvoti-municipality-traffic-official-sentenced-for-corruption\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Umvoti municipality traffic official sentenced for corruption - South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KWAZULU-NATAL \u2013 On Tuesday 28 June 2022, the Greytown Regional Court convicted and sentenced Dumisani Mchunu who was a traffic officer at Umvoti Municipality.Mchunu demanded R10 000-00 gratification after he claimed that the license disc of the complai...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/umvoti-municipality-traffic-official-sentenced-for-corruption\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-30T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"sjadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sjadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/umvoti-municipality-traffic-official-sentenced-for-corruption\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/umvoti-municipality-traffic-official-sentenced-for-corruption\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"sjadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b5258049232dc72b42ad1073df5c990f\"},\"headline\":\"Umvoti municipality traffic official sentenced for corruption\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/umvoti-municipality-traffic-official-sentenced-for-corruption\/\"},\"wordCount\":117,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Human Rights\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/umvoti-municipality-traffic-official-sentenced-for-corruption\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/umvoti-municipality-traffic-official-sentenced-for-corruption\/\",\"name\":\"Umvoti municipality traffic official sentenced for corruption - South Africa Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/umvoti-municipality-traffic-official-sentenced-for-corruption\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/umvoti-municipality-traffic-official-sentenced-for-corruption\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/umvoti-municipality-traffic-official-sentenced-for-corruption\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Umvoti municipality traffic official sentenced for corruption\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa Journal\",\"description\":\"Hub for all the Latest News &amp; 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